With so many wrongful arrests today, jails are overrun. With the inability to pay for Bail, Private Legal Counsel, or Investigators to help prove innocence, many get lost in the shuffle.

Imagine people who are wrongfully arrested. Many are prosecuted without ever being asked a question. Before they have their day in court, which is a Constitutional Right, they are presented with a plea deal, or threatened with lengthy prison time if they lose in the trial. Far too often, out of fear, they accept the plea deal.

Research shows last year over 58 million people were wrongfully arrested and charged. With prosecutors allowed to set bail so far out of reach, some 70% of jail inmates spend an average of 2 years behind bars without ever being convicted of a crime (credit: colorofchange.org). Why are communities being snatched away at alarming rates? The answer may lie behind private prison corporations.

Due to the lack of resources, people remain in jail and are forced to work for as little as $0.04 per hour while producing goods and services that sell for trillions of dollars annually. That means the number one commodity in the United States is no longer oil, it’s now prisoners. Simply put, slavery never ended; it evolved.